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About.com
http://www.about.com/
Thousands
of web sites arranged by subject.
Acronym Database
http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms
“This is a list of acronyms
(abbreviations constructed mostly from the initial letters of the words
of a phrase), gathered from many network sources and submitted by users.”
Babel Fish
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Babel Fish allows you to have
up to 150 lines of text translated into several different languages. You
can also have it translate a webpage.
Bulfinch's Mythology
http://www.bulfinch.org/
The online version of this well-known
reference on mythology.
Calendars
http://www.sldirectory.com/cal.html
Websites for every conceivable calendar. Also links to astronomical information,
historical events, holidays and birthdays.
Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
The online version of the Catholic
Encyclopedia.
CIA World FactBook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
A wealth of information about
countries around the world.
Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/65
Online encyclopedia
containing over 51,000 entries
CountryReports.org
http://www.countryreports.org/
Includes information about countries
of the world. You may also hear the national anthems of the various nations.
Currency Converter
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
Provides the latest exchange
rates for 164 different types of currency.
English Dictionaries
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref28.05.00/
Ethnologue
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
Linguistic
information on languages from all over the world.
EurekAlert Reference
Desk
http://www.eurekalert.org/links.php
Great reference
sites in the sciences, sponsored by the AAAS.
FastFacts
http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm
Almanacs, FactBooks, and Statistical
information sites. Compiled by Gary Price of George Washington Univ.
Free On-line Dictionary
of Computing
http://nightflight.com/foldoc
FOLDOC is
a "searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages,
tools, history... in fact anything to do with computing."
Infography
http://www.infography.com
Scholarly
bibliographies and websites searchable by topic.
InfoNation
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp
Allows the
user to compile comparative data tables of countries all over the world.
Select from broad fields: Geography, Economic, Population, and Social
Indicators.
Information Please
Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
Subject guides,
ready reference, and special topics.
Itools
http://www.itools.com/
Research tools for searching the Internet.
JAKE (Jointly
Administered Knowledge Environment)
http://jake.openly.com/
OpenURL Link-Server used to
locate citation/abstract/full text database sources for numerous periodicals.
Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/
Dictionary,
thesaurus, and links to other reference tools.
OneLook Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
Can search
for 4197163 words in 746 online dictionaries.
Quoteland.com
http://www.quoteland.com/
The place to go for quotes!
Roget’s
II: The New Thesaurus
http://www.bartleby.com/62
Provides definitions as well
as related words.
Symbols.com
http://www.symbols.com/
The Word Index
on this site is quite helpful in locating symbols. A brief description
and sometimes historical information accompanies the illustrations.
Visual Thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
"The
Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is an exploration of sense relationships
within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread
of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations."
VoyCabulary
http://www.voycabulary.com/
Type any URL
into VoyCabulary’s search box and you will be able to look up any
word on the website you’ve chosen.
Webster's Revised Unabridged
Dictionary, 1913 Edition
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html
ARTFL project.
YourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Many useful tools on this site,
including lists of the most misspelled and mispronounced words. A great
site for those who love words!
Zip Code Look-Up
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ziplookup/lookupmenu.htm
Direct from the US
Postal Service
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updated 6/6/2007
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